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Steven W. Graves

Steven W. Graves is an American chemist and Brigham Young University professor who co-founded the diagnostics company Sera Prognostics in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2008.

Steven W. J. Lamberts

Steven W. J. Lamberts, born 1944, is a Dutch endocrinologist at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, known for introducing long-acting somatostatin analog therapy for acromegaly.

Steven W. McLaughlin

Steven W. McLaughlin is an information theorist known for error control coding and storage coding who rose to Georgia Tech provost before becoming Cooper Union's president in 2025.

Steven W. Pipe

Steven W. Pipe (Steven Wesley Pipe) is an American pediatric hematologist at the University of Michigan known for leading pivotal gene therapy trials in hemophilia.

Steven W. Running

Steven W. Running is an American ecologist at the University of Montana who leads NASA's MODIS land productivity work and shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

Steven Waddington

Steven Waddington (born 1968, Leeds) is an English film and TV actor known for Edward II (1991), Major Duncan Heyward in The Last of the Mohicans (1992), and roles in Jamestown, Sleepy Hollow, Slow Horses, and The Imitation Game. Not the Perth AI writer Steve Waddington.

Steven Warach

Steven Warach is an American vascular neurologist, professor at Dell Medical School and stroke director for Ascension Texas, known for introducing diffusion-weighted MRI into acute stroke diagnosis.

Steven Weber

Steven Weber (born 1961) is an American actor known for Brian Hackett on NBC's Wings (1990-1997), Jack Torrance in The Shining (1997), Broadway's The Producers, and Dr. Dean Archer on Chicago Med.

Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg (1933–2021) was an American theoretical physicist who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for unifying the weak and electromagnetic forces and helped build the Standard Model.

Steven Williams

Steven Williams (born 1949, Memphis) is an American character actor known for Captain Adam Fuller on 21 Jump Street, Mr. X on The X-Files, Lt. Burnett on The Equalizer, and Rufus Turner on Supernatural; distinct from the Boogie2988 YouTuber and actor Billy Dee Williams.

Steven Wilson

Steven Wilson is an English musician best known as the founder and frontman of the progressive rock band Porcupine Tree and as a solo artist.

Steven Wright

Steven Alexander Wright (born 1955) is an American deadpan one-liner comedian from the Boston scene, Grammy-nominated for I Have a Pony and I Still Have a Pony and winner of the 1989 Oscar for The Appointments of Dennis Jennings.

Steven Yang

Steven Yang (阳萌, Yang Meng), born 1982, is the founder and chairman of Anker Innovations, a Changsha consumer electronics company he started in 2011 after working at Google.

Steven Yeh

Steven Yeh is an American ophthalmologist specializing in uveitis and vitreoretinal surgery, professor and chair of ophthalmology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and director of the retina and uveitis service at Nebraska Medicine.

Steven Yeun (연상엽)

Steven Yeun (연상엽, born Yeun Sang-yeop, 1983, Seoul) is a Korean-American actor: Glenn Rhee on The Walking Dead (2010–2016), Oscar-nominated for Minari, Emmy and Golden Globe winner for Beef, voice of Invincible's Mark Grayson.

Steven Zaillian

Steven Zaillian, American screenwriter, director, and producer born 1953 in Fresno, California; Oscar winner for Schindler's List, five-time nominee, creator of The Night Of and Ripley, and veteran uncredited script doctor.

Steven Zucker

Steven Zucker (1949–2019) was an American mathematician at Johns Hopkins University who worked in Hodge theory and L2-cohomology and formulated the Zucker conjecture, proved by Saper, Stern, and Looijenga.

Stevenage

Stevenage, Hertfordshire town and borough about 30 miles north of London; Britain's first post-war new town, designated under the New Towns Act 1946 with a pioneering fully pedestrian town centre; population about 89,500 in 2021.

Stevenage F.C.

Stevenage F.C., formerly Stevenage Borough, is an English club founded in 1976, playing at The Lamex Stadium in EFL League One after entering the Football League in 2010 as Conference champions.

Stevens Institute of Technology

Stevens Institute of Technology: private technological research university in Hoboken, New Jersey, founded 1870 by Edwin A. Stevens bequest; first U.S. mechanical engineering school, known for high graduate salaries and rising rankings.

Stevens rearrangement

The Stevens rearrangement is an organic reaction where an alkyl group bonded to a quaternary ammonium or sulfonium ylide migrates to form a new carbon–carbon bond, discovered in 1928.

Stevens Treaties

The Stevens Treaties are ten 1854–1855 agreements negotiated by Washington Territory Governor Isaac Stevens, some with Joel Palmer, with Pacific Northwest tribes; they reserve off-reservation fishing, hunting, and gathering rights, including the Makah whaling right.

Stevens-Johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis spectrum

Stevens-Johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis spectrum (SJS-TEN, epidermal necrolysis): a rare, mainly drug-induced mucocutaneous reaction with skin and mucosal detachment, subforms SJS (<10% BSA), overlap (10-29%), TEN (≥30%), mortality 20-25% in extensive forms.

Stevens–Johnson syndrome

Stevens–Johnson syndrome (SJS), with toxic epidermal necrolysis (Lyell syndrome) at the severe end, is a rare drug-triggered blistering skin-mucosa reaction; mortality about 10% in SJS, up to 50% in TEN; SCORTEN predicts death.

Stevenson (Mercurian crater)

Stevenson crater is a 134-km-wide impact crater on Mercury at 1.79°, 216.2° E, named in 2012 for author Robert Louis Stevenson and known for X-shaped secondary crater chains on its floor, imaged by MESSENGER.

Stevenson High School (Lincolnshire, Illinois)

Stevenson High School, formally Adlai E. Stevenson High School, is a public high school in Lincolnshire, Illinois, opened in 1965 and named for Adlai E. Stevenson II.

Stevia

Stevia: Stevia rebaudiana, the Paraguayan sweet-leaf shrub, its steviol glycoside sweeteners (200-300x sucrose), production, JECFA/EU/FDA regulation, ADI 4 mg/kg bw, and health evidence.

Stevia rebaudiana

Stevia rebaudiana (caa-ehe) is a Paraguayan and Brazilian Asteraceae herb whose leaves contain steviol glycosides such as stevioside and rebaudioside A, sweeteners 40–300 times sweeter than sucrose with an ADI of 4 mg/kg bw/day.

Stevie B

Stevie B (Steven Bernard Hill, born 1958, Fort Lauderdale) is the American singer-producer called the King of Freestyle; his 1990 ballad "Because I Love You (The Postman Song)" topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks.

Stevie Case

Stevie "Killcreek" Case is an American technology executive and former professional gamer who beat John Romero at Quake in 1997, becoming the Cyberathlete Professional League's first professional player.